Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk

Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, (born July 10, 1942, Komarovka, Belorussia, U.S.S.R. [now Belarus]) Soviet cosmonaut who flew three times in space and was head of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow.

Soviet cosmonaut Pyotr Klimuk.

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Klimuk became a cosmonaut trainee in 1965, at age 23. Between 1967 and 1969 he trained for a flight around the Moon that was eventually canceled. He flew his first mission into space in 1973 as commander of Soyuz 13, during which he and his crewmate Valentin Lebedev spent a week in Earth orbit. Having transferred into space station training, Klimuk flew his second spaceflight in 1975 as commander of Soyuz ... (100 of 243 words)